- - Sally Struthers Remembers the Improvised Move That 'Cracked Up' Amy Sherman-Palladino on the “Gilmore Girls” Set

Angela AndaloroOctober 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM

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Sally Struthers recalls one of her funniest moments from the making of Gilmore Girls

Struthers played Babette throughout the show's run, from 2000 to 2007, and reprised the role in 2016's Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

The actress, 78, will be one of many appearing in an upcoming Gilmore Girls documentary

Sally Struthers always brings a little bit of herself to each of her characters.

In a recent conversation with The New York Post, the actress, 78, opens up about filming an episode of Gilmore Girls, where she played one of Stars Hollow's funniest neighbors, Babette.

Struthers recalled a scene shot at night, where "My character, Babette, had to run from the town square to Luke’s Diner. I had news to tell, like the town crier."

There were many takes of the run, and after a few, Struthers started to feel it.

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Scott Patterson, Lauren Graham, Sally Struthers in "Gilmore Girls"

“After that many runs, my breasts were hurting, being jiggled up and down. I didn’t have on a sports bra, or anything. So I was holding them, and running," she laughed, adding. "And that apparently completely cracked up Amy Sherman-Palladino."

The showrunner "couldn't believe I was doing that," Struthers laughed, noting she did what she had to do to get the scene shot.

“That’s the take that’s in the show – Babette running, holding her breasts," she says.

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Sally Struthers

Chatting with PEOPLE earlier this month, the actress talked about collecting fans from different stages of her career and cherishing them all.

"It's funny, a 20-year-old young lady will approach me and call me Babette because of Gilmore Girls. And then her mother, if she's with her, will go, 'No, darling, she's Gloria.' And now people are starting to call me Virginia from the Netflix series," she says.

Struthers jokes that she will "answer to anything."

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